(i) the use of evidence and careful reasoning to work out how to maximize the good with a given unit of resources, tentatively understanding ‘the good’ in impartial welfarist terms, and
(ii) the use of the findings from (i) to try to improve the world.
(i) refers to effective altruism as an intellectual project (or ‘research field’); (ii) refers to effective altruism as a practical project (or ‘social movement’).
Second, you can see it reflected in CEA’s programming. I’d say their Groups programme is a social movement support programme (and, as I’m funded by that programme, I’d say most of my work is social movement work).
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I’d say EA is very much a movement.
First, MacAskill mentions it in his definition of EA:
Second, you can see it reflected in CEA’s programming. I’d say their Groups programme is a social movement support programme (and, as I’m funded by that programme, I’d say most of my work is social movement work).
Third, the outside world perceives it as a movement. See the Wikipedia definition, this New Yorker article, and this TIME article.